![]() ![]() They manage to make it to the airport with Kevin this time but, due to the commotion, the rush, and the crowds, Kevin follows a man he mistakes for his father onto the wrong plane and ends up in New York City. The next day, they rush to the airport after a mishap causes them to oversleep again and nearly miss their plane. After an argument with his mother later that evening, Kevin says he wishes he had his own money so he could go on his own vacation without any of them. Buzz "apologizes" to Kevin and his family but he makes it clear to Kevin that he didn't mean it and admonishes his family for believing his lies. Kevin isn't happy, though, since there are no Christmas trees in Florida, and things go south pretty quickly when, during a school concert that features him singing a solo, his older brother, Buzz, humiliates him and Kevin retaliates, once again causing a huge commotion that he's blamed for. So, yes, it is indeed a cash-in, with less heart than the original, but it's still a fun cash-in nonetheless and, at the end of the day, that's all it takes to satisfy me.Ī year after the events of the original Home Alone, it's Christmastime again and the McCallister family is gearing up for another holiday trip, this time to Florida. ![]() This movie is also everything that most sequels, for better or worse, tend to be: it takes the most popular aspects from its predecessor and cranks them up by ten. As a result, we got a movie that is a major example of, "second verse, same as the first," with the same director and writer/producer, the same basic plot, albeit in a different setting and on a bigger scale, and virtually the same cast, with a few additions and absences here and there. Even though it seems that the movie has grown in popularity and now shows quite a bit around Christmas nowadays, as an adult, I can now understand why it seemed to get the shaft: while the original is a pure, sincere holiday movie, this is definitely little more than a cash-in. You can't really blame Twentieth Century Fox for wanting a sequel to what was the highest grossing comedy of all time at that point and, to that end, making sure to replicate it as much as possible. As a little kid, I didn't see Home Alone 2 nearly as much as I did the original, mainly because, while the original was shown a lot around Thanksgiving and Christmas on NBC and other stations, the sequel almost never got the same amount of coverage.
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